Tag Archives: Ivan Chermayeff

weill done: a weill deal

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: one thing i’ve taught myself to do while thrifting is to always ALWAYS dig through old stashes of classical records. i used to skip over classical records when i found them at yard sales and thrift store … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, Bertolt Brecht, Frasconi, Ivan Chermayeff, Joseph Albers, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mario Lanza, Milton Glaser, Neil S. Fujita, push pin studios, Richard M. Powers, Richard Powers, robert brownjohn, Searle, seymour chwast | Leave a comment

you know my method, watson

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design , Maplewood, N.J.) The Return of Sherlock Holmes Penguin Books, 1986 Illustration and Design: Paul Davis (b. 1938)/Paul Davis Studio This is what’s called a TV tie-in (or movie tie-in) design. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged David Burke, derek lamb, edward gorey, Edward Hardwicke, Ivan Chermayeff, Jeremy Brett, joseph papp, joseph papp public theatre, paul davis design, paul davis studio, paula scher, Robert Downey Jr., seymour chwast, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the return of sherlock holmes | Leave a comment

peacenik chapel

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) IT’S hard for us to remember during thee heady days of conservative religious political activism. but, back in the 1950′s and 1960′s, the church was a bastion of liberal and progressive thought and action. religious activists … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, ban the bomb movement, christian banner, corita kent, corporate pop culture, emmett grogan, graphic design, Henri Matisse, Ivan Chermayeff, jean arp, matisse stained glass windows, peace movement 1950's, Psychedelic Art, reid miles, sister adelaide, sister corita kent, the Diggers | Leave a comment

suave cool and hip in stereo

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) if you were suave and hip and cool and a young bachelor in the post-war period (the early/mid 50′s) you had a Hi-Fidelity music system. that’s where we get the phrase “Hi-Fi” from. it was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, andy warhol record covers, art chantry, don martin record covers, Ivan Chermayeff, joe meek, Josef Albers, robert brownjohn, stereo sound effects record, Tennessee Williams | Leave a comment

good vibrations: still cool after all these years

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Art

From the Bauhaus to your house… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): In the pantheon of graphic design professionals, there are very very few who have reached the levels occupied by Ivan Chermayeff. He’s considered one of the grand masters of 20th century … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged 23 envelope, Bauhaus Art, bauhaus design, Chris Burden, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed roth, genesis p. orridge, Ivan Chermayeff, Jamie Reid, phase 2, Pushpin design, pushpin studios, robert brownjohn, Robert Williams, survival research laboratories, tom geismar, von dutch, Walter Gropius | Leave a comment

born modern

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Art

He proclaimed that he was “born modern”. Alvin Lustig and a feature image that looks somewhat inspired from the Henri Matisse cutouts from his post-war period.Or maybe it was Matisse was inspired by Lustig for his “Jazz” series. quite possible.Other … Continue reading →